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My old boss in Dayton said never rush a skin fade, and I ignored him for 3 years
When I started cutting at a shop off Fifth Street in Dayton, the owner Ray was 62 and had been behind the chair since he was 19. He kept telling me the same thing over and over: slow down on the fade, let the clipper do the work, and stop going back over the same spot. I thought he was just old and set in his ways, so I kept racing through cuts to fit in more heads per day. Then one Saturday a regular named Marcus looked at his neck in the mirror, saw the lines, and never came back, and that one lost client cost me about $1,800 in cuts that year. Now I run my Andis at half the speed I used to. Any of you ever had an old timer be right after you spent years thinking you knew better?
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oliver7195d ago
Heard a barber on a podcast say the guys who burn out their wrists and their clients both do it the same way, going too fast on the detail work. He said the fade is really just a bunch of small steps and if you skip one you can see it from across the room. Marcus spotting those lines in the mirror was him seeing a skipped step, plain and simple. That $1,800 lesson stings but you only have to learn it once, right? Ray sounds like he'd been watching guys make that same mistake for 40 years.
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